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Being Wrong: Adventures In The Margin Of Error
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error Being wrong and having someone tell you that your wrong isn’t a good feeling. Many people feel like they can never be wrong and in my opinion that’s a very ignorant way to think. No one was made perfect and I say that to say this, being wrong is imbedded in our human DNA. That’s why in mathematics and science they have formulas that have human error or margin of error as variables in their calculations. I remember one day I was arguing with a friend and I thought that my response was so right I just kept on forcing the argument hoping that it would result in having my point being proved. Finally when we both saw that neither of us would give in we took the argument to a teacher which explained
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